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Proposals For Insider Trading Regulation After The Fall Of The House Of Enron, James P. Jalil

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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The New Mandate Of The Corporate Lawyer After The Fall Of Enron And The Enactment Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Christina R. Salem

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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International Insolvency And Environmental Obligations: A Preclude To Resolving The Conflicting Policies Of A Clean Slate Versus A Clean Site In Transnational Bankruptcies, David Neiman

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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The Misappropriation Theory Of Insider Trading In The Supreme Court: A (Brief) Response To The (Many) Critics Of United States V. O'Hagan, Randall W. Quinn

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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If Multidisciplinary Parternships Are Introduced Into The United States, What Could Or Should Be The Role Of General Counsel?, Michele D. Beardslee

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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Bag Wars And Bank Wars, The Gucci And Banque National De Paris Hostile Bids: European Culture Responds To Active Shareholders, Ernesto Hernández-López

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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In Employers We Trust The Federal Right Of Contribution Under Internal Revenue Code Section 6672, Kenneth Ryesky

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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Disclosure Of The Irrelevant? –Impact Of The Sec’S Final Proxy Voting Disclosure Rules, Brian D. Stewart

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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From Behind The Corporate Veil: The Outing Of Wall Street's Investment Banking Scandals - Why Recent Regulations May Not Mean The Dawn Of A New Day, Gina N. Scianni

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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Business Law Reform In The United States: Thinking Too Small?, Douglas C. Michael

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Dean Johan Henning presents the South African experience with business entity reform as one part of a coordinated whole. It included, for example, government funding for business, tax reforms, accounting and securities changes. Henning says that these reforms, though multi-faceted, had a uniform purpose: to use small business as an engine to improve the economy and to move “historically and socially disadvantaged groups” into the mainstream of the economy and the society.

These are noble goals and far reaching efforts, and a lot to ask of business entity reform. But because the South African experience was nonetheless successful by all …

The Impact Of Modern Finance Theory In Acquisition Cases, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr.

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In February of 1983, the Supreme Court of Delaware decided Weinberger v. UOP, Inc. The case holds that, in determining the present value of a corporation involved in an acquisition, courts are free to use “any techniques or methods [of valuation] which are generally considered acceptable in the financial community…”

The rule in Delaware prior to Weinberger required courts to determine the present value of a corporation by use of the Delaware block method of valuation exclusively. The Delaware block method, however, is a poor way to determine the present value of a corporation. As a result, even before the …

Corporate Responsibility And The Regulation Of Corporate Lawyers, James M. Mccauley

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

On July 30, 2002, in an effort to demonstrate to the American public a resolve to crack down on corporate scandals such as Enron, Adelphia, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, President Bush signed into law the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002”. Proclaiming that the new law will restore investor confidence, reform the oversight of public accounting and increase the transparency of corporate financial statements…

A Flaw In The Sarbanes-Oxley Reform: Can Diversity In The Boardroom Quell Corporate Corruption?, Steven A. Ramirez

Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Multinational Enforcement Of U.S. Securities Laws: The Need For The Clear And Restrained Scope Of Extraterritorial Subject-Matter Jurisdiction., Kun Young Chang

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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International Money Laundering Abatement And Anti-Terrorist Financing Act Of 2001: Congress Wears A Blindfold While Giving Money Laundering Legislation A Facelift, George A. Lyden

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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Information Privacy And Internet Company Insolvencies: When A Business Fails, Does Divesture Or Bankruptcy Better Protect The Consumer?, Farah Z. Usmani

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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The A.A. Sommer, Jr. Annual Lecture On Corporate Securities & Financial Law: Post-Enron America: An Sec Perspective, Harvey Goldschmid, William Treanor, John F.X. Peloso, Jill Fisch

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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An Analysis Of The Section 3(A)(10) Exemption Under The Securities Act Of 1933 In The Context Of The Public Offering Component Of Section 3(C)(1) Of The Investment Company Act Of 1940, Marc F. Holzapfel

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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The Future Of Codetermination After Centros: Will German Corporate Law Move Closer To The U.S. Model?, Jens C. Dammann

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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Gifts Of Family Llc Units In A Post-Hackl Era: Present Interests Or Future Interests?, Thomas S. Flickinger

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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To Shred Or Not To Shred: Document Retention Policies And Federal Obstruction Of Justice Statutes, Christopher R. Chase

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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Improving Charitable Accountability, James J. Fishman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article focuses upon a persistent problem of the nonprofit sector--its lack of accountability to the public. Director, officer, and organizational responsibilities will be analyzed. Past and current approaches to secure accountability of charitable assets will be discussed, and a proposal for improving charitable accountability will be suggested through the creation of public-private charity commissions at the state level under the aegis of the attorney general.

Enron, Titanic, And The Perfect Storm, Nancy B. Rapoport

Scholarly Works

This article explores the contention of Jeffrey Skilling, former Enron CEO, that Enron's debacle was due to a perfect storm of events. It rejects his contention, arguing instead that Enron's downfall was more like Titanic's - hubris and an over-reliance on checks and balances led to Enron's downfall. The article then explores how character (especially of those at the top of an organization) can lead to Enron-like disasters, and discusses how cognitive dissonance can lead to very smart people making very stupid decisions. It ends with some musings about how lawyers can learn from Enron.

The Provisional Director Remedy For Corporate Deadlock: A Proposed Model Statute, Susanna M. Kim

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Sorting Through The Soup: How Do Llcs, Llps And Lllps Fit Withing The Regulations And Legal Doctrines?, Daniel S. Kleinberger

Faculty Scholarship

In a children' book published in 1946, Ben Ross Berenberg described an imaginary amalgam called the churkendoose - "part chicken, turkey, duck and goose." In 1977, Wyoming invented a business law churkendoose: the limited liability company - part corporation, part general partnership, part limited partnership. That churkendoose has revolutionized the law of business organizations, becoming the vehicle of choice for tens of thousands of ventures every month and causing the IRS to radically overhaul its approach to taxing business entities. This article explores how preexisting regulatory and common law apply to LLCs and the related organizations known as limited liability …

Redefining The Fiduciary Duties Of Corporate Directors In Accordance With The Team Production Model Of Corporate Governance, Gregory S. Crespi

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

This article considers the "team production model" (TPM) of corporate governance set forth and elaborated upon by Margaret Blair and Lynn Stout. The author initially addresses how the locus of fiduciary duties should be respecified to be consistent with the TPM framework of corporate governance, should that paradigm be determined to be a descriptively more accurate model of public corporations than is the conventional agency mode, and then reviews the relatively complex calculations that would have to be carried out to determine how the performance of a TPM-style corporate board of directors measures up against these respecified fiduciary duties. Finally, …

Gprady, William K. Black

Faculty Works

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The George A. Leet Business Law Symposium: The Role Of Lawyers In Strategic Alliances - Introduction, George W. Dent

Faculty Publications

Introducation to The George A. Leet Business Law Symposium: The Role of Lawyers in Strategic Alliances, Cleveland, Ohio.

Focusing Failures In Competitive Environments: Explaining Decision Errors In The Monty Hall Game, The Acquiring A Company Problem, And Multiparty Ultimatums, Avishalom Tor, Max Bazerman

Journal Articles

This paper offers a unifying conceptual explanation for failures in competitive decision-making across three seemingly unrelated tasks: the Monty Hall game (Nalebuff, 1987), the Acquiring a Company problem (Samuelson & Bazerman, 1985), and multiparty ultimatums (Messick, Moore, & Bazerman, 1997). We argue that the failures observed in these three tasks have a common root. Specifically, due to a limited focus of attention, competitive decision-makers fail properly to consider all of the information needed to solve the problem correctly. Using protocol analyses, we show that competitive decision-makers tend to focus on their own goals, often to the exclusion of the decisions …

Litigator's Thumbnail Guide To The Warn Act, David A. Santacroce

Articles

When large companies choose to lay off workers or close down plants without prior notice, they can be subject to extensive liability under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), including 60 days backpay to all affected workers, daily fines to local government, and attorney fees generated during the suit. In the following article, the author presents the bare bones basics of WARN in order for employees and their advocates to understand how and when WARN applies.